Legendary fictions of the Irish Celts

350 Fictions of the Jrisk Celts.
score of years from this our present epoch. The Gentle-
titan's Magazine has existed a hundred and thirty odd
years, and will, as we hope and wish, be still young a
hundred years hence. Its chief object is to preserve in
memory former modes of existence, and everything con-
nected with them. We readily grant that many of the
treasures of its museum are of far more importance than
such relics as we are striving to save from the remorse-
less teeth of time, but certainly others there preserved
are much inferior. But the world of literature is wide
enough for us all : we
only scramble each to get his own
collection in a place of honour. We are hopeless oi
literary fame for ourselves in this' struggle ; but we are
truly in earnest that the memory of those things which
were of interest to our forbears should be recorded and
preserved for the knowledge of those who succeed us to
the fiftieth generation. We are doing for them what we
should be very glad that the Greeks and Romans had
done for us.
^^'hat is here presented is a mere fraction of the wealth
of Gaelic fiction.